Influence of TiO2 Content on the Tensile and Actuation Properties of Piezoelectric Fiber Composites

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Piezoelectric fiber composites (PFCs) composed of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) fibers with interdigitated electrodes (IDEs) were prepared by viscous polymer processing technique. The influence of TiO₂ content in epoxy resin on the electrical impedance, tensile properties and actuation performance of PFCs was investigated and characterized. The experimental results showed that the resonant frequency of PFCs was influenced by TiO₂ content in the epoxy resin heavily. With the increase of TiO₂ content in epoxy resin, tensile strength and longitudinal free strain of PFCs were enhanced firstly and then decreased. When the TiO₂ content in epoxy resin was increased to 3wt%, the tensile strength reached the maximun value, 77.50 MPa. The longitudinal free strain of PFCs reached 1783.7 με when PFCs with 3wt% TiO₂ in epoxy resin were under the excitation voltage range of -500 V to +1500 V at 0.1 Hz. Both tensile properties and actuation performance of PFCs decreased when TiO₂ content increased from 3wt% to 5wt%. PFCs exhibited different actuation performance when excitation electric field with different frequencies was applied to PFCs. With the increase of excitation frequency, the longitudinal free strain values of PFCs displayed an obvious decrease at first and then decreased slowly when excitation frequency was over 5 Hz.

Key words: piezoelectric fiber composites (PFCs), TiO2, tensile properties, actuation performance

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TQ174

CHEN Hai-Yan, LIN Xiu-Juan, CHEN Zi-Qi, ZHOU Ke-Chao, ZHANG Dou. Influence of TiO₂ Content on the Tensile and Actuation Properties of Piezoelectric Fiber Composites[J]. Journal of Inorganic Materials, 2015, 30(2): 165-170.

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Fig. 1 SEM micrographs of the microstructure of PFCs (a) Parallel to the fiber length; (b) Perpendicular to the fiber length; (c) Epoxy region with 1wt% TiO2

Fig. 2 Tensile stress-displacement curves for PFCs with different mass fractions of TiO2 in epoxy resin

Fig. 3 Electrical impedance of PFCs with different mass fractions of TiO2

Fig.4 Longitudinal free strain of PFCs with different mass fraction of TiO2

Fig. 5 Longitudinal free strain of PFCs under different frequencies

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